Consultants who help lease these properties say this is the steepest decline at least in a decade.
While there was a sharp drop in footfalls in malls in H1FY21, there was reasonable recovery in H2. However, the second wave derailed the recovery.
Of the 300 operational malls in the country, just 5-7 per cent, or about 20 malls, are doing well, suggest analysts reports.
120 new malls came up in last two years, but 30-40 of their older peers downed shutters